Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed promised to be a singles matchup made in golf heaven, but the two Ryder Cup heavyweights are putting on a show for the ages out there at Hazeltine.
Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed are torching Hazeltine
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Slugging it out from the get-go, the boys are clubbing drives, making putts, yelling their lungs out, and offering what NBC Sports analyst Johnny Miller said, in an uncharacteristic understatement for the brash NBC analyst, “has the makings of the greatest match ever on television.”
For those of you clicking between football and golf, here’s all you need to know about what’s going down in the first singles match of Sunday’s finale:
That bro fist-bump as they walked off the green, though.
As befitting the spectacle that no one wants to see end, Reed and McIlroy were all square through eight.
